Workforce Management

After experiencing a tree-related outage on a 230kV transmission line, one utility realized they needed a culture shift in their vegetation management philosophy. They needed a combination of new technology, new participants, and new processes. With their new processes, the utility chose to implement software-enabled LiDAR and a comprehensive work order management system. This combination of process and technology change is allowing this utility to transform the organization into a compliance-driven culture. This presentation will identify the tools, share outcome data, and provide examples of how the utility’s approach enhances safety, increases productivity, reduces threats, and helps communicate with disparate stakeholders

SRP’s Land Records Division created a Web-GIS Land Records Information Management System (LRIMS) to dramatically improve the efficiency and ease with which users access the organization’s scanned land records documents. The LRIMS-Flex application includes a sophisticated security model that controls document access privileges across a wide number of user groups. This presentation provides a technical briefing on the creation of the LRIMS-Flex application with a short demonstration of the capabilities of the application

The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) needed a field data collection solution that would streamline getting data in and out of the field, plus integrate into their enterprise ESRI/SDE and ArcFM GIS environment. NTUA needed to support field crews, management, and the office GIS simultaneously. The solution NTUA implemented successfully provides a more efficient and streamlined data collection process and is utilized for its water, sewer, electric, and gas assets

The implementation of a mobile resource management (MRM) system can provide cost savings and a host of other benefits to an organization. This presentation is geared to organizations considering the implementation of such a system and represents an effort to explain the various components, provide insight into the pros and cons of differing approaches to the technology, and cover some of the benefits a system can provide

The City of Tallahassee Underground Utilities has implemented bi-directional data integration between GIS and custom developed mobile work management applications. This effort provides for optimized dispatching of fieldwork from a GIS interface and enhanced data integrity through updating of GIS critical attributes captured during fieldwork. This implementation was handled entirely by internal city of Tallahassee employees from several departments and involved extensive custom development

GIS and asset data are often confined to mapping departments due to the high cost of licensing and limited tools for sharing data across an organization. Utilities can now leverage thin-client, Web-based technology providing access to your GIS from any browser on the network. Enterprise GIS provides a central data repository and communications link to third-party applications while automating work order processes, reporting, and mobile operations

A group of communities in the greater Chicago (Illinois) area are working together to realize the benefits of geographic information systems (GIS). This organization was formed in 1998 to provide an alternative to meeting the challenges of starting and sustaining GIS programs. This organization is called the GIS Consortium (GISC), www.gisconsortium.org